- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
U.S. President Donald Trumpannounced Saturday that he had ordered the military to “launch decisive and powerful” action against the Houthis in war-torn Yemen, a glaring contradiction of what critics have called the Republican’s “anti-war charade.”
The U.S. bombing follows Trump redesignating the Houthis—also known as Ansar Allah—as a terrorist organization shortly after returning to office in January and comes just days after the group renewed a blockade on Israeli ships.
Shuaib Almosawa reported earlier this week for Drop Site News that “the military spokesperson for the Houthi-led government in Yemen on Tuesday announced the resumption of the naval blockade targeting Israeli ships traversing Yemen’s waterways, following the expiration of its deadline for Israel to allow aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.”
What happened to the whole “let them fight each other, we don’t need to be there” speech?
Probably the same that happened to all other “on day one” speeches, I assume.
Little different here because transit of trade through the Suez is essential for American business. It’s very much in-line with Trumps ideology to care about his bottom line and protecting American business, not to mention he gets brownie points from his base for acting tough. Win win.
I believe the article mentioned it was only stopping troop transports. Not all ships.
The article does not say that, Houthis are absolutely not just targeting Troop transports (?) - there is no troop transports going through the Suez to Israel. I assume you’re misreading the Trump quote from the article here - they have targeted US warships but they’ve also targeted a large number of commercial/oil ships as well.
Even if they were only targeting troop transports (which they aren’t), they’re throwing missiles at the worlds most important trade route - it’s obviously going to impact pretty much everyone who transits through there. The whole point of their actions is to cripple Western trade related to Israel.
Trump enacted the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. A judge shut it down, citing that it’s a wartime act. Trump then hit Yemen with an airstrike. Coincidence?